Store manager Dylan DeVetter paints a wall in the new location of the Ragstock store Tuesday, January 8, 2013, at the Fox River Mall in Grand Chute. / Dan Powers/The Post-Crescent

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Maureen Wallenfang

Post-Crescent staff writer

Reader question: Maybe I missed it somewhere in your column, but noticed that Ragstock has a moving sale going on and Ecklund Sports is vacant. They were actually painting it when I passed the space yesterday.

Answer: This Fox River Mall store shuffle is just under way now, and I hadn’t written about it yet.

Ecklund moved out of the mall on Friday and is in the process of relocating nearby. More about that below.

Ragstock, which is located next door in the mall’s Younkers wing, will move into the vacated Ecklund space on Sunday.

A third retailer, yet unnamed, will move into the vacated Ragstock store.

Ragstock has been in the mall since May 2011. It’s a young clothing store that features affordable, trendy, new, used, recycled and vintage clothing. The move gives it a slightly smaller space.

“Larger spaces are more expensive to run,” said Minneapolis-based owner Mike Finn. “This is more cost effective and efficient.”

As for Ecklund, its one-year mall lease expired and it is now in the process of relocating to a nearby building that it shares with Tuesday Morning in the 300 block of N. Mall Drive. Ecklund is a motorsports equipment and apparel retailer based in Oshkosh, and it had been using the Mall Drive space to store its off-season Skidoo apparel. It will renovate a portion of the 20,000-square-foot space into its new retail shop.

“To start, we’ll have the mall clothing available. We have some other plans for that space to talk about in the future,” said Trenton Ecklund, son of owner Kirk Ecklund, who oversees the retail stores. “We are doing a total remodel and should be open at the end of February.”